Ilya is the stereotypical genius mind that is extremely passionate yet disconnected from the real world. He got way too worked up about abstract issues, failed to see the bigger picture and had a meltdown that other board members took seriously because he's a cofounder. He is instrumental in the research but he shouldn't be running the business.
I'm surprised that none of these investors secured a board seat for themselves before handing over tens of billions. The board is closer to a friendship circle than a group of experienced business folks.
The execs were. They've been paying millions for a top-tier AI devteam hoping for something like ChatGPT, just to find out that their devteam made and freely released the transformers research that ChatGPT is based on (derp)
As always, Google has incredible ideas and promise but lacks business execution